Strawberries are one of nature’s healthiest "packages" of power nutrients. There is strong evidence that strawberries are a heart-protective fruit, an anti-cancer fruit, and an anti-inflammatory fruit all rolled into one ripe treat.
Let’s have a look at strawberries health benefits.
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Here is the third post of a series we called “Fast Food Around The World”. Today we will take a look at what do people in South and Central Americas eat on the streets. Again, this is not a scientific research and we don’t pretend to list every food in every country. So if you have something interesting to add or if we have made some mistakes, please do not hesitate to comment and share your thoughts.
Update. OK, we surely were wrong to put Mexico to Central America. It’s North America. Sorry for the confusion.
The countries and foods are arranged in no particular order.
Argentina
There are plenty of minutas or snacks to choose from. The lomito is a sandwich filled with a juicy slice of steak, often made with pan arabe while the chivito is made with a less tender cut. Other street food includes the choripan, South America’s version of the hot-dog, but made with spicy pork sausages (chorizos), and at cafes a popular snack is the tostado, a toasted cheese-and-ham sandwich, sometimes called a carlitos. Barrolucas are beef and cheese sandwiches, a local variant on the cheeseburger, named after a Chilean president, and very popular in western Argentina, around Mendoza. Empanadas are small pies filled with all types of filling, although ham, cheese and meat are the most popular. During the week before Easter special empanadas are filled with tuna or cod. Milanesas – thin breaded meat, similar to a German schnitzel.
Other street food include garrapinadas, locro, pastelitos, chipas.
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Here is the second post of a series we called “Fast Food Around The World”. Today we will take a look at what do people in Asia and Australia eat when they need to eat fast. Again, this is not a scientific research and we don’t pretend to list every food in every country. So if you have something interesting to add or if we have made some mistakes, please do not hesitate to comment and share your thoughts.
The countries and foods are arranged in no particular order.
Australia
The meat pie and sausage rolls are examples of traditional take-away foods. Typically found in many takeaway shops is the ‘Australian Hamburger’. This is mainly distinguished from other hamburgers by the range of fillings available. An order with all fillings is known as a ‘Hamburger with the Lot’. The fillings include lettuce, tomato, cheese, beetroot, grilled onion, bacon, a fried egg and pineapple.
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Fast food is the food that that can be prepared and served very quickly. Modern fast food is associated with global chains of fast food restaurants like Burger King, McDonald’s, KFC and the like. And country wise, United States probably would be the first country you would think of if asked about fast food. However fast food chains are not the only sources of this food and it can be found, most likely, in every country in the world.
Today we would like to start a set of posts about the fast food around the world. This is not a scientific research and we don’t pretend to list every food in every country. So if you have something interesting to add or if we have made some mistakes, please do not hesitate to comment and share your thoughts.
The countries and foods are arranged in no particular order.
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By now you probably have your Christmas tree installed and decorated. But if not, you might try something unusual. Take a look at these strange, unusual and funny Christmas trees.
A Christmas tree made of candles inside glass capsules in Shiodome, Japan. Link
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High blood cholesterol level is one of the major risk factors for heart disease. When there is too much cholesterol in your blood, it builds up in the walls of your arteries. Over time, this buildup is leading to atherosclerosis, the narrowing of the arteries, and a restriction of blood’s ability to pass through them unhindered and deliver oxygen and other essential nutrients to various parts of the body.
As plaque builds up, the arteries narrow and harden until eventually blood flow is obstructed. If the obstruction is so severe that oxygen can’t reach a portion of the heart or brain, the result is a heart attack or stroke. This can happen quite suddenly if a small blood clot lodges in the narrowed artery and cuts off blood flow.
Having a high cholesterol level does not cause symptoms. Most people find out they have high cholesterol when they have their blood cholesterol measured as part of a medical check-up. Alternatively, it may be identified after other health problems, such as heart disease, have been diagnosed.
One of the ways to lower cholesterol levels is to eat proper foods. And this doesn’t mean dieting.
Diet tends to help people lower triglycerides and raise good HDL cholesterol, but it’s less likely to have a big impact on bad LDL cholesterol.
We compiled a list of foods with cholesterol-lowering properties. Not only the following foods are proven to reduce your risk for developing heart disease, but many will also reduce your risk for other serious conditions such as high blood pressure, stroke, or diabetes.
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A paradox is a fact that contradicts the paradigm.
Besides probably the most known and discussed “French paradox” there are other paradoxes that were discovered by the researches and they are not less interesting then the French one.
1 French Paradox
The most famous is the French Paradox. Over the years, many studies have highlighted a conundrum: Despite the typical French diet contains large amounts of butter, cream, and other foods rich in artery-clogging ‘unhealthy’ saturated fats, the French incidence of heart disease is low. They don’t diet and they don’t spend hours panting round the gym. This is, of course, seen as a ‘paradox’ because conventional wisdom has it that such a diet should increase heart disease rates.
Not so long ago we have been writing about the French Paradox in more detail.
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Bananas are unique fruit with unique properties. It is fantastic fruit with sweet taste that most people enjoy. Bananas perfectly satisfy hunger and supply an organism with energy and useful nutrients. It has a rare combination of energy value, tissue-building elements, vitamins and minerals, fiber and other essential nutrients. Also bananas have very convenient natural packing. It is compact, healthy, easy to carry, and easy to use.
The health benefits of bananas are being investigated worldwide. And here is the list of these benefits. But first, some interesting facts about bananas:
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If you actually want to say "goodbye" to your belly, you should take a lesson from the French.
Despite a diet stuffed with cream, butter, cheese and meat, just 11 percent of French adults are obese[3], compared with America’s 33 percent[2]. The French live longer too, and have lower death rates from coronary heart disease. They don’t diet and they don’t spend hours panting round the gym.
Here are several solutions for the notorious “French paradox” – the riddle of how a nation of alcohol-quaffing, croissant-munching gourmands stays healthy and slim, while a disproportionate number of health-obsessed Americans are obese and at cardiovascular risk.
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The days of thinking about fats just as calories are over!
Initially, trans fats were thought to be a healthy alternative to animal fats because they’re unsaturated and come primarily from plant oils. However, in 1990 scientists made a startling discovery: Trans fats appeared to both increase LDL (bad) cholesterol and decrease HDL (good) cholesterol. More studies over the years confirmed this. At the present time, we do know that trans fats have a very deleterious effect on heart and metabolism in general. However, this is still far not all negative consequences.
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